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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Pre-post favourites Manighar and Shez Sinsational are obvious threats to Scenic Shot collecting a third Doomben Cup, the veteran galloper's jockey Shane Scriven says.Scriven, who credits the $3.2 m...

THOROUGHBREDS don't come much more durable than Scenic Shot, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald. His report adds: The latest West Australian iron horse continues to front up on raced...

Dual Group One winner Scenic Shot will have his first run in more than a year over 1400 metres in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington.The Perth-trained eight-year-old is scheduled to arrive i...

Dual Group One winner Scenic Shot pleased trainer Dan Morton with a searching track gallop between races at Ascot on Saturday ahead of his return to racing next month.The winner of the 2009 Doomben...

Crowd favourite Scenic Shot showed he was still a force to be reckoned with as an eight-year-old when he scored a thrilling win in today's $500,000 Group One Doomben Cup (2020m), repoorts www.breed...

Perth stayer Scenic Shot may need to produce a modern day weight-carrying record if he's to win next week's Brisbane Cup following his commanding victory in the Group Two O'Shea Stakes at Eagle Far...